Ep. 426 - Fort Omaha

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska has a campus filled with historic buildings because this was once Fort Omaha. This fort's main purpose was to serve troops logistically during the Indian War era and is connected to the landmark Standing Bear v. Crook Case in 1879 in which Native Americans were legally determined as persons under the law. This location also was a place that conducted experiments with dirigibles at the Balloon School. There are multiple ghost stories from Fort Omaha as well. Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of Fort Omaha. The Moment in Oddity features a skeleton walled up at Fort Independence and This Month in History features five letters between John and Abigail Adams. Our location was suggested by David Young.

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Music used in this episode:

Main Theme: Lurking in the Dark by Muse Music with Groove Studios

(Moment in Oddity) Vanishing by Kevin MacLeod
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(This Month in History) In Your Arms by Kevin MacLeod
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Cigar Box Blues by Winnie the Moog

Outro Music: Happy Fun Punk by Muse Music with Groove Studios

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Transcript

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0:00.0	History tells the story of the world and of our lives.
0:21.8	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night, broadcasting from the Central
0:35.0	Reparity and the Supernatural in Central Florida. It's the History Goes Bump Podcast.
0:48.0	Hello you spooktacular people. Welcome to this 426th episode of the History Goes Bump Podcast.
0:54.0	Goes tours for the theater of the mind. I'm your host Diane. And this is Kelly.
0:58.0	Kelly, on this episode we are doing a location that was suggested by our listener David Young.
1:02.0	And that's Fort Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska. I guess that's where it got that cool name.
1:07.0	Not surprising. This is such a great city. I would have never thought anything of Omaha,
1:12.0	especially because it's in Nebraska and living in Colorado. I just thought it was a
1:16.0	huge cornfields. But Omaha is amazing. There's so much haunted stuff around this place.
1:22.0	I'm like biting at the bit to go back to it. Plus it has my favorite restaurant in the world, the Monster Club.
1:27.0	Yes. And as am I. And I also want to get back to the Scroll Cage Jail.
1:31.0	Yeah. And they're all right there. Before we get into that, we want to welcome into this
1:35.0	spooktacular crew, Ralph, Amanda, Courtney, Yvonne and Zander. Welcome to the crew everybody.
1:43.0	And now this moment, notity.
1:54.0	There's a legend connected to Fort Independence in Boston that Edgar Allan Poe may have
1:59.0	used for inspiration. It seems that in 1905 some workmen were doing repairs
2:04.0	at Fort Independence on Castle Island in Boston Harbor in the former Dungeon area.
2:09.0	When they knocked down the brick wall, they discovered a skeleton chained to the wall,
2:13.0	wearing toutors of what looked like a military uniform. This apparently was a man known
2:18.0	as Lieutenant Guttavis Drain. In 1817, a young lieutenant named Robert Massey arrived
2:24.0	at the fort. He got along with everyone except this Lieutenant Drain. One day,
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